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Robert Darwin Crouse was a Canadian Anglican theologian born in 1930. He was educated at King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia, at King's College and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at

the University of Toronto, Trinity College (Toronto), and Union Theological Seminary, where he undertook doctoral studies under the supervision of Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. Upon the completion of his doctorate in 1949 he returned to Trinity College in Toronto to teach, and in 1964 became the Keble Professor of Divinity. He continued to teach there until his retirement in 1986. He died in 2011.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, as well as an honorary doctor of Mcgill University in Montreal, the University of King's College in Halifax, and Huron College in London, Ontario.

For many years he was a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and a Patron of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute. He was in addition an official Anglican observer at the Second Vatican Council as well as a participant in the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, in connexion6 with which the Cross of St Augustine was conferred upon him in 1981 by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Robert Runcie).